HTML Paragraphs

HTML documents are divided into different paragraphs. Generally, a new paragraph is started by pressing the ENTER key.

However, in HTML, the browser does not understand the space created by the ENTER key. Therefore, a special element or tag i.e., P known as the paragraph element (P element) has to be inserted at the point from where we want to begin a new paragraph.

The paragraph tag is a container tag, which means it has both the opening <p> and the closing </p> tags.

Note - Browsers automatically add an empty line before and after a paragraph

HTML P Element Attributes

The following table describes attributes of the P element:

Attribute	Purpose
class	Defines the name of element
dir	Defines the direction of the paragraph written from left to right or from right to left
id	Defines the value of id
lang	Defines the language in which the paragraph is written
style	Defines an inline style of the element
title	Provides an extra information about the element
Onclick	Opens an HTML document on a mouse click
Ondblclick	Opens an HTML document on a double-click
Onkeydown	Opens an HTML document on pressing of a key
Onkeypress	Opens an HTML document on pressing and releasing of the mouse button
Onkeyup	Opens an HTML document when a key is released
Onmousedown	Opens an HTML document on clicking of a mouse button
Onmousemove	Opens and HTML document on moving of the mouse pointer
Onmouseout	Opens an HTML document when the mouse pointer moves out of the document
Onmouseover	Opens an HTML document when the mouse pointer moves over the element
Onmouseup	Opens an HTML document on releasing of the mouse button

HTML Paragraph Example

Here is an example of HTML paragraph:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
   <title>HTML Paragraph Example</title>
</head>
<body>

<p>This is a paragraph</p>
<p>This is another paragraph</p>
<p>This is the third paragraph</p>
<p>You can create many paragraph as per your requirement using the <P> tag</p>

</body>
</html>

It will display the following result:

Here is another example also demonstrates paragraph in HTML:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
   <title>HTML Paragraph Example</title>
</head>
<body>

<p>
This paragraph
contains a lot of lines
in the source code,
but browser totally
ignores it.
</p>

<p>
This paragraph
contains      a lot of spaces and lines
in the source     code,
but    browser totally
ignores it.
</p>

</body>
</html>

Here is the sample output produced by the above HTML paragraph example code:

To write "as it is text" in HTML, you can use HTML pre tag. To learn in detail about pre tag, you can refer to HTML Basics Tags, there you will see the use of pre tag with examples.

Let's take another example on paragraph in HTML:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
   <title>HTML Paragraph Example</title>
</head>
<body>

<p>This is the first paragraph.</p>
<p>This is the second paragraph.</p>
<p>This is the third paragraph.</p>

</body>
</html>

Here is the output displayed by the above paragraph example in HTML: